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Mathews residents comment on Main Street improvements

Mathews residents had their first chance to have a say in $2.2 million worth of proposed changes to Main Street during a Mathews Main Street Committee meeting on Monday.  Main Street Committee chair Bette Dillehay and Mathews County Planning and Zoning Administrator Thomas Jenkins outlined some of the changes to a small group of business owners and residents who attended the public meeting. Jenkins said some changes are already being considered based on public reaction to the part of the federal enhancement grant-funded project that was recently completed between Brickbat Road and Food Lion. The changes now under consideration are planned for the section of Main Street between Hyco Corner and Food Lion. The 2014 plans include additional bump-outs with two 12-foot lanes between, drainage inlets along the road that would relieve some of the stormwater build-up now occurring at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, and landscaped areas. But those plans are old, said Jenkins, and increasing t...

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